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Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1864-04-09

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volume xxvn. . ,Jt gnaotratit-gairatt L. HAEPEB.'; OdIe In YJed waxdHloelc, Sd Story. rBBMS-Two DoIUrt pr aaftra, payMein ad- wuau ix Bwui) 9X00 after the ezpi EDITED BY L. HARPER. SPEEGB or i CEI. A. BANNING NORTON, or TIZA5. A 0pr Ixtilvtt,Ncw York, March 17, '64. Tremendous Enthusiasm for " Little Ma9.! Th Soldiers Present En II; Pfea for the Union Men of Tex a. " An Sutorical Resume -The Causes of Secession, and t?ie CureTim Lane - and the Radicals Denounced A Tri- umphant Vindication of the Southern Union Men. - -- The greatest success of the year was the grand demonstration in - favor of General McClellax, at Cooper Institute, New York, to which we have heretofore alluded. The World devotes several columns to the meeting, and the . Herald and other city papers conceded that it was a monster meeting, unparal-lelled in enthusiam and ability. From the report we republish the Speech of Gen. Norton, in order that the views of the true Union men of ; the South of the destructive policy of the radicals, who of late have assumed control of the Government, may be fully understood. The-Speech, on account of its historical accuracy and soundness of doctrine is eminently worthy of being generally read and preserved : ' General A. Banning Norton, the editor of the last Union paper in Texas, and in the South, was introdjxeed. 5fr: Norton was . three times elected to the Texas Legislature, and was theAdjutant-General at the time of secession. He owned three newspapers, two of vrhieh were seized by the secessionists and the third destroyed. He was indicted simultaneously in eight counties for treason, because he was a Unionist, but succeeded in escaping, although a reward was offered for his head, and has remained in Ohio for the last two years. In commencing his remarks he said he would be unable, from severe. indisposition, to make himself heard by the assembled thousands, unless order was observed, and he remarked to those who were calling ' louder," that in the XiOne State State they had a homely phrase "if you don't like the smell of fresh bread leave the bakehouse." (Great laughter) If, however, they were true friends of the gallant chieftain, to advance whose cause he was willing to lend his humble aidby travel lin long weary miles to attend the meeting, if they were in favor George B , MeCiellan---(ehthusiastic cheering) for the man of the people for the next President of the United States, (renew ed cheering) then he knew they would give mm their attention. Hear me, my friends and fellow-countrymen. Hear me for your country's cause. Hear me, not for any merit that I possess myself, for I make no pretensions. I am humble, poor and penniless, and the result I bear m my own person and my own property of this infernal and hell-born rebellion. Applause.) I have no love for the causes that hare brougnt it about, or .the parties who have been instrumental ;in bringing the present unfortunate .condition of affairs upon the country. (Much cheering.) I know it is the custom in every. political canvass of those who address the people to use the old hackneyed expression that they are now in the great crisis of their country s history, and if their particular party is . not successful in the present campaign the country is certain to ie destroyed. ',1 make no such expression, for God -knows, and you mortals all know, that L your country is not only upon the brink ct ruin, but is. tar gone in the road of destruction. It is necessary that we should have a proper man in the management of the ship of state, if we would, ride through the storm. We were told in the olde? times that skillful mariners should dread and avoid Scylla and Cha-rybdis; and I now say to you, that you should alike dread Secession and Abolition. (Cheers.) r We have now an tan-skillful nd unfaithful captain, and a mutinous crew. I referto the,- issues taken by certain men. in Washington, with Loneoln himself. We must have a COod captain to ffuide nn tn tli a . hsrbor ofpeace and prosperity, and that rnan . is- George B llcClellan.'; (Great Jcieers.) .; I heard thatllQClcllaii had no -IHej VndI irai astonished when I '.came to thhill to see the masses that camf np.to-honox him here and T do .apt ftt thexa all now either, forlvwent - " : M mm - . ml - - - A on the battlements, and saw the assem blage stretching through your streets, terrible as an army with banners march ing on to redeem the country from its dangers. I found that McClellan nad friends a body of intelligent men, and, if tou were all like myself. I would a&v mf f t ' mf good looking men too. -(Laughter.) - This is the time lor plain talk. (That s what we want.) You dont't want hifa-lutin ; you don't want figures of rhe- tone, ixow, in Jiexas. we have three kinds of sense. The positive is sense. the comparative is common sense, the superlative is horse sense: and what we want now is horse Sense. Your; chairman in introducing me told Von that I edited the last Union paper in Texas. cheers.; JNot only in Texas but in the rebel South, and I was the onlv man who published the Inaugural message oi Abraham JLincoln. (Hisses and applause.) For doing so I lost subscribers and received denunciation and abuse- having refused also to publish the mes- sage oi "jing Jefi. Uheers.) lwill not dwell upon this theme. It is nairi- ful to me. I shonld not have alluded to the Subject at all, but from the manner of my introduction to you. I found editing a Union paper there a hard road to travel, and many of its incidents such as it is not pleasant to. recur to. He wanted to define his position, and did not wish to be considered as desiring to assist in building up a party to break down the administration, but was actuated solely hy a desire to do all in my power to perpetuate this glorious free government which our fathers gave us. Speaking of Texas he said he did not know what his State would be by the policy which the radicals had adopted. He knew that she would not be State, and she might be a subjugated province. (A voice " that's so.") The administration is pursuing a course which will cause the Union men of the South to give up all hope for the future. If its policy is carried out, Texas will not be a State to be inhabited by Unionists. It is proclaimed by the public speakers of the party in power that slavery is the sole cause of the war, and that there can be no peace or happiness in the country until slavery is abolished. These "men, by their opinions, question the justice of Deity itself. I am no apologist for : the institution of slavery I wish simply j to regard the rights of persons holding slaves as property, as those rights are defined in the Constitution. He then spoke at length of the present unfortunate condition of the country attributing the war to the feeling of alienation which was engendered on the part of the extremists North, and South. . He was no advocate of slavery. He took the institution as it had existed in this country at the time the constitu tion was created, and he regarded the rights of citizens of the southern States as defined and established by the Con stitution and the laws of the country. He alluded in the most scathing terms o to George Thompson, who. in 1834. was condemned and denounced by conservative people everywhere, but who had a public reception in Boston last month. He was introduced by Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts (hisses) and when lie (Mr Thompson) finished his speech tell it not in Gatn, publish it not in the streets of Askelon right there within the sacred precincts of the cradle of liberty itself there were given three cheers for the Queen of England, (hisses.) Yes my countrymen, three cheers for what he termed "his gracious lady, the Queen of England." (Hisses.) Upon the occasion, said the speaker, the anniversary of St. Patrick (he spoke the word with jreverence; for if there was one entitled to the kind and grateful remembrance of the people it was St. Patrick) to their shame be it said, cheers were given for sentiments uttered by Tomp-son agains t the Democratic institutions of our government the Englishman who denounced the slave institution and slave policy for not allowing the blacks to be taught to read and write while there stands upon the records of English history a statute law prohibiting the teaching of the Irish peasants to reaa ana write, ana prescribing a penalty for so doing. (Applause.) How shameful it was for such a man to come here and meddle with the domestic in Btitutions of this free people, and to in vol ve this country in civil war, and that he should be greeted with cheers for the Queen. (A voice, "hanglhhn !'-'! Another cause of the war was the old feud . that had existed from the days that his venerable friend (Mr. Kendall) assisted General Jackson in , mairaging the affairs .of State which was the question ' of free trade.- There ..were other questions that ?had operated to produce the present junhappy feeling between the two sections of the-country, prominent among ihem - being "the disposition un the part e? the people': of the North and the South to underrate each other. ; He spoke of Mrs. Etowes I and, pirns tead's . works which iniarep-' resented the true eondUion of . ajTairs-4 the 'legitimate iconsequencie of which' Was that there, rew; up ; an enabittered state of feeling in the Sonth .towards the people of the North. .Mf those mis- Sided people had only been .mindful of e, teachings of Washington ' and- Jef outside a little while axro. and stood nn- MOUNT VERNON fetson, who warned them against, form-' ing J sectional, parties, ana cautioned them against alienating the' people, the country would not he ' iiMrolred m- the present war. There grew up a people in these latter days who - were unmindful of the constitution and forgetful of law, and the country was7 4 now - suffering 2 in flesh, in hlood and in treasure the consequences of this act. Hoses gave the command not to covet our- neighbors -. 1 : - T r 9-. property, and those who intermeddled with it should have remembered the eleventh commandment! mind your own Dusiness. xi we were true to the con stitution and to its requirements, and stood by that sacred instrument in spirit and in letter, the Union would again become the same as our fathers made it. We then would have a union of brother ly love and friendly feeling. He (the speaker) was reared in the great whig school of the nation, and was the fol lower of glorious old Henry Clay. (Applause) He was the Gamaliel at whose feet he learned the greats lessons of instructions to be regardful of the value of the Union, and to stand by it at all hazards, in everyjextremity. It was he who said that whenever the ques tion of allegiance to his State, or to the federal Union presented itself much as he loved Kentucky, he would only yield allegiance to the government of the Un ited States. It was because he (the speaker) was reared in that, school of faith that when the mad waves of seces sion were rolling around him in Texas he stood true to the constitution and the Union. It so happened that in these latter days he -the Warm admirer of Clay and Webster, the giant intellects who stood up in defense of the constitution and the country stood upon the same platform with the venerable friend of Andrew Jackson, the gallant old hero, who was always true to the constitution and the Union. ( Cheers.) There were class of men out west who; denounced his venerable friend Kendall as not being a Jackson Democrat, and who claim to be the simon pure Democrats of the country. They would have you believe that they were all sprung from the loins of the old Hero of New Orleans: unfortunately for them he had no sons these are bastards ? (Cheers.) I came into this upper country (continued the speaker) as thorough and uncompromising a nion, man as ever wore russet shoes or brogans. No man ever heard me raise my voice in opposition to any action of the administration or its course of policy until after that administration removed General McClellan "from his position, (Cheers.) It was because I was fully impressed with the belief that General McClellan, ahough not a giant in stature, yet towering so far above the mushroon growth in Washington city the rest of the sentence was lost in the tumult of applause that followed this utterance. I say it was because I found him to be an intel lectual giant, with a mbre comprehensive knowledge than the other men I met with possessed, that I was favorably impressed in opinion with regard to him. Af ter that letter which set forth his policy was written ho was removed. My friends he was removed because ha would not be a subtle tool and sacrifice his own honest convictions to the behests of a set of politicians at Washington city". (Applause.) Finding that he would not sacrifice his manhood and cringing bow before them and whine approvingly to their schemes of fanaticism and madness they applied the official axe to his head. He could say with truth that their policy towards him was : "Ypu will and you won't. You can And joa can't You shall and you shan't." - George B. McClellan, you'll be dd if you do, and you'll be dd ifyou don't (Great Laughter.) Those men actually fancied and be ueved that they had damned him to everlasting infamy; that there were none so poor to do him reverence; but when I came into this hall to-night, in this great metropolis of the nation, where there is wealth, property, and influence, talent and intelligence, I found that George B. McClellan had thousands of friends where his traducers had none. (Loud Cheers.) He has been abused, denoun ced and traduced as few men in the his- torv of our countrv have been : tradneed and villified. (Voice -"Except Washington and Jackson.") Yes like Wash ington; but like him I believe Providence has marked him out to be the saviour of his country. -. (Voices--'Yes,: yes, tGood,M "The second George." and applause,) Yes, he is the second , George. (Renewed applause. V Not George uie Second, but George B. which stands for George the better in our hard and critical emergency. . Uut they traduce and denounce him. Is. it possible that he can survive ? Those persons out West who are bitter against hiniwonder if he dared show himseu. in'Kew. York " Laughter.! ,!They actually thought lie v would not dare to show- himself. tut --West;-- 3ut every xiow and then some men from the army. came. back-r--the men who manned jundef the banner of. which he was the v leaddr They r walked -v-the streets minus a txm oT a leg lost in the service-bf the jcountry.'and - shouted ? for 'Oittle Uact? ?A TTleft oh the train of, cars to coxneorNew York Ibidrigood by to a soldier who had - lost his arm - sm OHIO : SATTJUDAT, APHIL 9,; ; 1864. the battle field and when I'toldrjbimitl f was going to attend a IXcCteUan meet ing I asked him how Jie liked it, and he said, "I am for ; little Maor-put him through" , fLaughter - and eheers. But my countrymen, George B. McClell- an can bear traducing. He tcan lire under the abuse that he receivesunder the gibes and jeers of an enemy,--even-though that enemy should be the great joker himself Tcheers and laughter. Portentous indeed will be the day, if it should ever arrive, when it will be said that the owl towering high in pride of place shall bring the eagle down. No mousing owl can by any - effort , he - may make fly to the same height that our ' eagle will go, for "Little Mac" has the eagles upon his shoulders, and still higher he will .soar, Great applause. This was a fruitful theme, and he .Warlike the old man in the revival who said he would not give a cuss for a man who had'nt his heart in a cause. My whole heart, continued Mr. Norton, is in the cause of George B. McClellan, because I believe it to be the cause of civil and constitutional liberty. .; H'Good,' ' andn appiause. j tie neeu nis triumpnant election, and all of you should come up and join, hands and march shoulder to shoulder in advancing his cause. Voices "we wilLV) Some of you may be peace democrats; some of you may be of that class sty ledfwar democrats; some of you may be conservatives and many of you doubtless are republicans all having at heart the welfare of our common country. Then, in this day and hour of our national peril, in God's name come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty; come up in defense of popular rights; come up in defense of constitutional liberty; come up for the rescue of your bleeding country from - those 'who have stricken such deadly blows at its life. A voice -and we want our soldiers to come too.' Yes, we do," to march right along with ns. They have served their country and done it good service, and are entitled to the thanks of every man and woman in the land. Those soldiers one and - all, who have done such hard service with the Army of the Potomac, and who have with their great leader been traduced and vil. lified know how false .'aft these charges and accusations have bn against their, old C6mmander-iiv.ChejP(Thais so,') ana loud cheers; Ana to-day if it werS in their power, they wouldjarray themselves once again under Ids" banner.- "That is so" by spldiersJ - .Why countrymen, nothing under heaven has been accomplished since General McClellan was removed, in taking Richmond, any more' than he himself had done. Your own experience and observation since he was removed from the position of commander of the army of the Potomac has satisfied you that he was right, and those men who removed him were wrong. "That's so," and applause. Now, my friends, I have come to speak to you a few words in reference to the condition of the South, and the states in the South; The doctrine which I hold, and which I believe every man in this room, who is sane,, will hol(l,i that the states which have been, by the rebellion of citizens of those states, carried as it were, out of the rightful control of the laws of those states and the Con stitution of the federal Union, that they cannot be destroyed. I will give you an illustration of the matter- I belong to Texas; and I know that theconven--tion that passed the ordinance of secession was called by an irresponsible little clique of sixty-one men, hangers-about of drinking safoons and restaurants, and it was issued by and in pursuance of the action of that clique An election was held; one hundred and eighty delegates came together at the state capital, without any right whatever, and passed an ordinance of secession. It was in the most dark and perilous time: that that glorious bid chief, Sam. Houston, the old war-worn hero jof San Jacinto (cheers) . v A voice "Is he living yet?" He is not living iny friend, I am sorry to say. The last inter riew I had l with him he trusted in God for my spee dy getting out of the country, and lor my speedy return with nieh who would re'ieve them from the thraldom and tyranny that was over them. -In the darkest hour j he, the rightful Governor, was deposed,- because "of his - fidelity to the Constitutional Union and Ed. Clark, the miserable tool, was proclaimed exe cutive m his place. Sirs, our state was never rightfully carried out of the Union. This convention that'-assed- the . oi di-nance"oft cession contained seven mem bers who had the nervojwid jhanhood to vote against the passaged of - that ordi nance, and I recollect th& jeers and jibes and hisses that ensued as each vote was caUed, and hois; the noble James Throck morton sprang to his feet and said ?'The rabble mar hiss when patriots tremble. (Applause.)., rhat was the; class of men that were true jtoi the Constitution and the Union in our state." -In our..' Legis lature we hnd thirteen tncmbers who rot ted against the ordinanco cf . secession and Tan tyoudsr 4Hn cf any event in my life, that it was zny lot to be cine of ththirteeawhgrToted against thei ac turn -of that convention. Apt)lanse. The convention su!nnitted the ordinance of'.secessioji-lh j and they adjourned - ' to -heir homes, some one. hundred, and eighty delegates and . all the;' clerks, sergeants-at-arms, and other oflicers connected with it, and they went out with only ; seven men to battle against them. We had only thirteen men in the Legislature, and yet we kept the faith and fought the good fight. The Constitution required that tney should give sixty days notice of their election, and yet upon'this most important event in the" history of our state government they had only fifteen days w weruse meir uiscretion m regard to their votes. Then they - came up to vote under that most infamous of all terrors, the reign of terror instituted by a vigilance committee, and yet seventeen thousand of those loyal men had the nerve and vigor faithful to the Constitution and. the Union to vote an open ticket against secession in that state. (Applause.) The state was declared carried out by the convention. It was in point of fact the eighth state in the union to secede. They carried the vote for this reason mainly.- that Major-General Twiggs before that election, in violation of his express promise to General Houston, surrendered up the arms and the munitions of war to the agents of the order of the Golden Circle, who took command "and sway. And shall it be sad that the loyal men of any state who were carried out of the Union by such means through the instrumentality and connivance, the fraud and treachery of officers sworn to the government, shall it be said . that now the federal administration shall be seeking to disfranchise our people, confiscating their goods and chattels, emancipating their slaves, and depriving them of all their possessions? 7 ("No, no.") No, my friends, I know you consider it wrong; it'is infamously wrong, and let me say one thing further, after all" the sacrifices that our people have made, after they have remained true, and many of the Union men have been driven from their homes, many of them hunted down, many of them found theirhiding-places in the caverns of Colorado, and many have left their bones to bleach upon the barren sands shall it be said of those men who fell so nobly in behalf of the true i principles of government, that they died in vain? ("No, never.") Shall it'.be said that their rights and the rights of their families are to be trampled upon by the agents of the federal government! ;fNo,rjxo." My blood fairly boils within me when I refer to the present condition of public affairs; wheft I see the proposition sub-; mittedin the Senate of the United States by ' the radical senator, I would call him, if it were not for dealing in personalities, to which I object, a crack brained, fanatical senator "Sumner?" No, sir: it is the Kansas border-ruffian, Lane; and, by the way, I think, as he did not get re-elected, that he probably realizes the truth of that old proverb, "It is a long lane that has no ending." Laughter. I have never seen him, but I take it for 'granted he is a long lank, candaverous and a white-livered Lane, or he would not be in favor of disfranchising the people of Texas and gi ving all their property, their slaves, all the territory west of the Colorado river up to freed negroes! Are you, the people of the free .North and otherwise ? citizens of New-York, going to stand by and see these efforts to wrcsti from the true Union men of Texas all their property and effects? P'No." "No," "never." vV - . . '; . My friends, my doctrine is this and I believe it is the wholesome and correct Democratic doctrine, - that those men who were in the states, true to the federal government, true to their state con- stituti on, lose none of their rights what ever by the action of those, who in rebellion, take hold of the government. (Cheers.) It is the true doctrine, the correct view of the question ; and if you do not take this view, then you run into the radical's position, who declare that the states are not in existence as states," but are in a territorial condition. Think you that that policy- is more likely to win the Union men South - to come up and embrace the old Constitution and swear allegiance to it ? Think you that ihey will, renew their vows ana pledge again their faith sooner than they would to stand by the government upon the policy of George B. McClellan's Harrison's Bar-letter, read to you. No, sir. Such a course as this in Texas and otb er states never can make Union men. Those men in my state have their histo ric traditions. They have the gl6ry of the past encircling them, and they are never going to prove unworthy sons, of their fathers. Why, sir, the very shades of old Davy Crockett, and Evans and Bowie and Travis, and .of the gallant men who fell at Alamo and Goliad, their shades -would again return-to earth and frighten ?out every devil ', of these men from the lands for which, ihey fought under', this Jm Lane system, fLa- rplause.1 , - Then, too, I hclleve, the same course oi puuer is oeing : pursuea in Florida, and with disastrous results ; I believe it has been the settled purposQ of a certain set of men with this afZio- tion cauea niger-on-tne-orain, ' ac- eompahied;with; " tarfcon-the-IieeIs"to mabs the coppers stick!.':: I believe .tiiia s the yejyysane course, ; and I, tell you unless t-; this , policy- is, cliangedV your Union cannot in your life time-exist-as a Union. I want the Union maintaihcl; I want it with all the "rights under the Constitution and within the Union. I have ho disposition or desire to do or say anything detrimental to the cause or the Federal government, or of those who for the time being administer the government: but in mv opinion the roI- icy they adopt is unwise and impolitic ana unconstitutional, ana 1 would De a craven and a dastard if I did not denounce it. Loud cheers. Yes, it is the duty of every man to pursue this course, and if there was a little more plain talk on this subject by the people, the government would not be propelled in the manner it has been. I have not much more to say in reference to that matter I have only to say that those men who set themselves up to preach this doctrine, are the last men on God Almighty's footstool to accomplish anything for the cause of the Union -and the (Constitution. TAppiause.T And now let me still further say . that, if the course ot poney marked out by General McClellan became also the policy of the government, in all the states in revolt, wherever there were men who took ground against secession, those' men would come up strong and powerful and zealous in support of the government of your country. Applause. Imagine an army led by the gallant General George B. McClellan, or a man with that view, in Texas or Louisiana; the people weuld flock to him and they would bring the state of Texas and other states, once again into the Union. And here let me say one word in reference to the constant abuse and denunciation of the South by a class of men who are canvassing the country. There was an old asage I learned when a boy, that it was "a dirty bird that be fouled its own nest." jXaughtcr. .' These men who slander the people where they lived must do it it from sinister motives. X appeal to history, and to the fair fame of the men of a state which has been so much abused by a certain class of newspaper writers and political demagogues. The Constitution of my State contains the most liberal provisions and provides for Common Schools that shall be free to the children of all citizens.. The appropriations of land and money for educational purposes are "greater than; in any State in the Union; and notwithstanding te" fact rthat we had a greater amount of mohey as common school fund than all NewJn-gland, the sanctimonious and puritanical fanatics are constantly" assailing us. I affirm that in "general intelligence, purity of morals, social refinement, and all the elements that go to make up the perfect State, with an industrious population, steadily increasing in wealth and agricultural and commercial prosperity, lexas never has had in the same length of time from its State existence a supe rior, nor even an equal. You have been told that the people of the South were illiterate, ignorant ; that that they were sand diggers, dirt-caters and snuff-dippers, and that there was no manner of gentility or refinement among them. As one of the citizens of that country; as one who has suffered, faithful to the government, and has sacrificed for the honor of the government, I take it upon myself to pronounce any and every man who makes such statements in reference to the people "among whom I have lived; in reference to the generous and hospitable southern people a liar, slanderer and a coward Cheers, j My countrymen you may just as well understand each other as not. You are' warring against whom ? You are not, my friends, in the army, brave soldier boys, you are not warring against, the miserable "greasers" of Mexico, not that class of men of whom you can whip out seven withne of you, and they have an experience of your calm bravery, that taught them you are foemen worthy of their steel, and they generally got the worst of Hy for while they are most' rm- petuous, jtne northerner, -tne coia in clime are cold in blood,'' meets the charge and as a general thing vanquishes his adversary. V: ; . -.- There have been during this war many engagements, rivaling Spartan bravery and Roman prowess. 5 Why should there not have been? - Yon are of the same flesh and blood, descendants of heroes who fought shoulder to shoulder in freedom's holy cause. You areas good as theyi and they no better than you. There has been enough of gas," enough of wind, enough of flourishing of official trumpets to the disparagement of your adversary! - Knough of false prophesy. enough of soothsayers enough of spirit ual medium prophecying I " Thethip ty days have passed,"- "the ninety," and yetotwitnstanding aii predic tions, the war gees on with its wonted furv. Lincoln. Seward. Chase. Greelev and Miss Dickinson, have prophecied - and all falsely. . - - -, S.The reason of these repeated failures is that they started on wrong premises. xney snux ineir eves to tne stuDooro facts, they have determined noi to heed the truthi They muzzled the press, ini prisoned or banished speakers andwri- ters,: who told the truth. Ana ne, wo even hinted at the truth, - or intimated anything contrary to -the popular Wish, was worse than m heretic a f copper dMfirTinf death ti tyU. -s V-tl The time: has come for the'scaies of NUMBER 52. : prejudice to bo dropped from the eyes, ' and things to be looked at in their real aspect. : -' ' ";- " " ; While the policy has served to distract the North, and: has united the South, it has nerved . with desperation men before irresolute and undecided. The most absurd of all theories has been that of subjugating the South by starvation. The authorties, in adopting it, manifested gross 'ignorance of the geography and of the resources and abilities of the Southern States. -- They forgot that God had favored them with a cli mate and a soil -producing , in greater abundance than the frozen regions of the North ; " and that the people were able, when applying themselves to produce subsistence and to make all they wear and a surplus besides. - While the men have shown powers of endurance unexpected, the women have evinced a seal and devotion to their cause, misguided though it be, which "has never been surpassed. Newspaper writers, contributors and camp followers, of the irrepressible" stamp, have ; misrepresented the actual condition of affairs, causing the indulgence of false and delusive hopes, which time dispels. ' Take official reports of recent expeditions into Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi, where mil-, lions of dollars worth of provisions and supplies were seized and destroyed. In the great raid of Gen. Sherman, for instance, see what vast captureseither he misrepresents, which I know he would not do, or those who have written down that people as being stricken, by gaunt famine, have wilfully and dcliDeratelr lied, t" That's so,' from several so Jlr. Norton closed with an elocuJt appeal for th Union men of th South, in defense them against the wholesale eppreaiion that the J ministration is heapiug alike upoo the traitors and haysi men without discrimination. He declared that if General JXoCIellatt be the r candidate of the people and I take it for grant . ed that he is to be voice "Be le th man") and in ooneeetion with him 70a have , euob a man as Oovernor Campbell of Tennessee, Cheers, or some other gentleman- like him, some true man, representing oonse rva tire sentiments, you will be successful with your ticket, and no mistake. Then ictoT7'i will perch upoa your banner. - And now, la order to know exact! where you stand, X put the question AU in fkvor of George B. Ho Clellao as onr next President, - in oppositioa to tEe world toe flesh and the devil combined Mj eo. Immense cheerieg.1 almost' ihm: entire audience rising to their feet and jgrving cheer after cheer for ilcCIellan, amid .which the band sent forth the inspiring-music of the-"Star Spagled Banner" and hundreds of little flaglets, containing the motto, "Bnrrah for McClellan," were raised bj patriotic hands in various parts of the halL The en th astasia was nnboanded, and evidenced fully that Gen.. McClellan is in the hearts of the people,- asd that they are determiced to stand by and sup-port him with all their might and ability. A Question of Fthnology.-Some people hare an idea that HannibeJ the Carthaeenian general, was a negro, be-" cause he was born on the Southern shore of Africa. The National JiUelKgenetr settles this ethnological question m the following way : Carthage was founded by the Phoenicians, and, nnless people change their color and extraction by the mere fact of changing their ky we most suppose that a Phcenician born in Carthage would not differ much front a Phoenician born in Tyre. . And, as we have never heard it asserted that the Tyrians were negroes, we know of no possible groand on . which it can be supposed tbst their deeoend-ams became negroes in Carthage, merely be- ' cause they lived in a country where negroes are the aborigines. We suppose that even Mr. W hiring would not contend that General Butler, the present renowned military commander of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, is a Peouot or Najragnoeett Indian, simply because hie English ancestors may haveoriginallr settled among one oT the Indian tribes inhabiting New England. . Don't Forget It I Early in 1850 John P. Hals, ofNew- Tlamp.' shire, presented two petitions in the United States Senate, praying That some plan might be devised for the dissolution of the American Union I" - Mr. Webster, of Massachusetts suggested as a preamble to these resolutions, "That as the) members had sworn before God to support the Constitution, they should now take itsroedisto : stepe to break their obligatione. v- . Upon a vote being taken, the petitions were rejected bv the votes of the entire Senate, wiUv the exceptions of John. P. Hale, of New Hampshire, Wm. H. Seward, of New York, and Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, who voted fa favor!! . . . ' . mmmmmmMmmmWmmmmmmmmgmmmmi'MmmWmmmmmmmmmmp ."siW" ' How It 7orks. We clip the fqllowing from the Newark, Ohio, Advocatt of Friday-' " r -'. Within the last two weeks fifty thoosand dollars have been withdraws from thr tax duplicate of Licking ooanty by ten or a doxsa of onr citizens who have started one of Chase's banks at Granvills. Is order to escape State, county, town and township taxation o your property, all yoa have to do is to invest vpar means in XJovemmen t : bonds. .That's what.-theee-bankers have done. They are paid fa . terestin gold (eaual to ten percesU,) and yet are mads a prwltql das free from taxes I Voters, how do yon like UT ' , ." f r .;; Asdrexr Johnxca..-- ' ; A correspondent of t he Loniav ills J aehmZ. writing from Londen, Tenaessen, ttye-of A&. drew Johnsoc, Lincoln lliiiixry Covernbr of that T''y7J-:r;-:;. - People here" who haJ at Crtt 4 riacV eon--fiiencn in thelovxlty f Andrew Cohsso, rami in the purity of his actives, caw rr ?i !.'ta-as a UBtahn. Theyaay that be has the rple, sX now wacu to drsit tLm'tuv: the dirty pool with him. TXey matttgx: I -i " : - y

volume xxvn. . ,Jt gnaotratit-gairatt L. HAEPEB.'; OdIe In YJed waxdHloelc, Sd Story. rBBMS-Two DoIUrt pr aaftra, payMein ad- wuau ix Bwui) 9X00 after the ezpi EDITED BY L. HARPER. SPEEGB or i CEI. A. BANNING NORTON, or TIZA5. A 0pr Ixtilvtt,Ncw York, March 17, '64. Tremendous Enthusiasm for " Little Ma9.! Th Soldiers Present En II; Pfea for the Union Men of Tex a. " An Sutorical Resume -The Causes of Secession, and t?ie CureTim Lane - and the Radicals Denounced A Tri- umphant Vindication of the Southern Union Men. - -- The greatest success of the year was the grand demonstration in - favor of General McClellax, at Cooper Institute, New York, to which we have heretofore alluded. The World devotes several columns to the meeting, and the . Herald and other city papers conceded that it was a monster meeting, unparal-lelled in enthusiam and ability. From the report we republish the Speech of Gen. Norton, in order that the views of the true Union men of ; the South of the destructive policy of the radicals, who of late have assumed control of the Government, may be fully understood. The-Speech, on account of its historical accuracy and soundness of doctrine is eminently worthy of being generally read and preserved : ' General A. Banning Norton, the editor of the last Union paper in Texas, and in the South, was introdjxeed. 5fr: Norton was . three times elected to the Texas Legislature, and was theAdjutant-General at the time of secession. He owned three newspapers, two of vrhieh were seized by the secessionists and the third destroyed. He was indicted simultaneously in eight counties for treason, because he was a Unionist, but succeeded in escaping, although a reward was offered for his head, and has remained in Ohio for the last two years. In commencing his remarks he said he would be unable, from severe. indisposition, to make himself heard by the assembled thousands, unless order was observed, and he remarked to those who were calling ' louder," that in the XiOne State State they had a homely phrase "if you don't like the smell of fresh bread leave the bakehouse." (Great laughter) If, however, they were true friends of the gallant chieftain, to advance whose cause he was willing to lend his humble aidby travel lin long weary miles to attend the meeting, if they were in favor George B , MeCiellan---(ehthusiastic cheering) for the man of the people for the next President of the United States, (renew ed cheering) then he knew they would give mm their attention. Hear me, my friends and fellow-countrymen. Hear me for your country's cause. Hear me, not for any merit that I possess myself, for I make no pretensions. I am humble, poor and penniless, and the result I bear m my own person and my own property of this infernal and hell-born rebellion. Applause.) I have no love for the causes that hare brougnt it about, or .the parties who have been instrumental ;in bringing the present unfortunate .condition of affairs upon the country. (Much cheering.) I know it is the custom in every. political canvass of those who address the people to use the old hackneyed expression that they are now in the great crisis of their country s history, and if their particular party is . not successful in the present campaign the country is certain to ie destroyed. ',1 make no such expression, for God -knows, and you mortals all know, that L your country is not only upon the brink ct ruin, but is. tar gone in the road of destruction. It is necessary that we should have a proper man in the management of the ship of state, if we would, ride through the storm. We were told in the olde? times that skillful mariners should dread and avoid Scylla and Cha-rybdis; and I now say to you, that you should alike dread Secession and Abolition. (Cheers.) r We have now an tan-skillful nd unfaithful captain, and a mutinous crew. I referto the,- issues taken by certain men. in Washington, with Loneoln himself. We must have a COod captain to ffuide nn tn tli a . hsrbor ofpeace and prosperity, and that rnan . is- George B llcClellan.'; (Great Jcieers.) .; I heard thatllQClcllaii had no -IHej VndI irai astonished when I '.came to thhill to see the masses that camf np.to-honox him here and T do .apt ftt thexa all now either, forlvwent - " : M mm - . ml - - - A on the battlements, and saw the assem blage stretching through your streets, terrible as an army with banners march ing on to redeem the country from its dangers. I found that McClellan nad friends a body of intelligent men, and, if tou were all like myself. I would a&v mf f t ' mf good looking men too. -(Laughter.) - This is the time lor plain talk. (That s what we want.) You dont't want hifa-lutin ; you don't want figures of rhe- tone, ixow, in Jiexas. we have three kinds of sense. The positive is sense. the comparative is common sense, the superlative is horse sense: and what we want now is horse Sense. Your; chairman in introducing me told Von that I edited the last Union paper in Texas. cheers.; JNot only in Texas but in the rebel South, and I was the onlv man who published the Inaugural message oi Abraham JLincoln. (Hisses and applause.) For doing so I lost subscribers and received denunciation and abuse- having refused also to publish the mes- sage oi "jing Jefi. Uheers.) lwill not dwell upon this theme. It is nairi- ful to me. I shonld not have alluded to the Subject at all, but from the manner of my introduction to you. I found editing a Union paper there a hard road to travel, and many of its incidents such as it is not pleasant to. recur to. He wanted to define his position, and did not wish to be considered as desiring to assist in building up a party to break down the administration, but was actuated solely hy a desire to do all in my power to perpetuate this glorious free government which our fathers gave us. Speaking of Texas he said he did not know what his State would be by the policy which the radicals had adopted. He knew that she would not be State, and she might be a subjugated province. (A voice " that's so.") The administration is pursuing a course which will cause the Union men of the South to give up all hope for the future. If its policy is carried out, Texas will not be a State to be inhabited by Unionists. It is proclaimed by the public speakers of the party in power that slavery is the sole cause of the war, and that there can be no peace or happiness in the country until slavery is abolished. These "men, by their opinions, question the justice of Deity itself. I am no apologist for : the institution of slavery I wish simply j to regard the rights of persons holding slaves as property, as those rights are defined in the Constitution. He then spoke at length of the present unfortunate condition of the country attributing the war to the feeling of alienation which was engendered on the part of the extremists North, and South. . He was no advocate of slavery. He took the institution as it had existed in this country at the time the constitu tion was created, and he regarded the rights of citizens of the southern States as defined and established by the Con stitution and the laws of the country. He alluded in the most scathing terms o to George Thompson, who. in 1834. was condemned and denounced by conservative people everywhere, but who had a public reception in Boston last month. He was introduced by Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts (hisses) and when lie (Mr Thompson) finished his speech tell it not in Gatn, publish it not in the streets of Askelon right there within the sacred precincts of the cradle of liberty itself there were given three cheers for the Queen of England, (hisses.) Yes my countrymen, three cheers for what he termed "his gracious lady, the Queen of England." (Hisses.) Upon the occasion, said the speaker, the anniversary of St. Patrick (he spoke the word with jreverence; for if there was one entitled to the kind and grateful remembrance of the people it was St. Patrick) to their shame be it said, cheers were given for sentiments uttered by Tomp-son agains t the Democratic institutions of our government the Englishman who denounced the slave institution and slave policy for not allowing the blacks to be taught to read and write while there stands upon the records of English history a statute law prohibiting the teaching of the Irish peasants to reaa ana write, ana prescribing a penalty for so doing. (Applause.) How shameful it was for such a man to come here and meddle with the domestic in Btitutions of this free people, and to in vol ve this country in civil war, and that he should be greeted with cheers for the Queen. (A voice, "hanglhhn !'-'! Another cause of the war was the old feud . that had existed from the days that his venerable friend (Mr. Kendall) assisted General Jackson in , mairaging the affairs .of State which was the question ' of free trade.- There ..were other questions that ?had operated to produce the present junhappy feeling between the two sections of the-country, prominent among ihem - being "the disposition un the part e? the people': of the North and the South to underrate each other. ; He spoke of Mrs. Etowes I and, pirns tead's . works which iniarep-' resented the true eondUion of . ajTairs-4 the 'legitimate iconsequencie of which' Was that there, rew; up ; an enabittered state of feeling in the Sonth .towards the people of the North. .Mf those mis- Sided people had only been .mindful of e, teachings of Washington ' and- Jef outside a little while axro. and stood nn- MOUNT VERNON fetson, who warned them against, form-' ing J sectional, parties, ana cautioned them against alienating the' people, the country would not he ' iiMrolred m- the present war. There grew up a people in these latter days who - were unmindful of the constitution and forgetful of law, and the country was7 4 now - suffering 2 in flesh, in hlood and in treasure the consequences of this act. Hoses gave the command not to covet our- neighbors -. 1 : - T r 9-. property, and those who intermeddled with it should have remembered the eleventh commandment! mind your own Dusiness. xi we were true to the con stitution and to its requirements, and stood by that sacred instrument in spirit and in letter, the Union would again become the same as our fathers made it. We then would have a union of brother ly love and friendly feeling. He (the speaker) was reared in the great whig school of the nation, and was the fol lower of glorious old Henry Clay. (Applause) He was the Gamaliel at whose feet he learned the greats lessons of instructions to be regardful of the value of the Union, and to stand by it at all hazards, in everyjextremity. It was he who said that whenever the ques tion of allegiance to his State, or to the federal Union presented itself much as he loved Kentucky, he would only yield allegiance to the government of the Un ited States. It was because he (the speaker) was reared in that, school of faith that when the mad waves of seces sion were rolling around him in Texas he stood true to the constitution and the Union. It so happened that in these latter days he -the Warm admirer of Clay and Webster, the giant intellects who stood up in defense of the constitution and the country stood upon the same platform with the venerable friend of Andrew Jackson, the gallant old hero, who was always true to the constitution and the Union. ( Cheers.) There were class of men out west who; denounced his venerable friend Kendall as not being a Jackson Democrat, and who claim to be the simon pure Democrats of the country. They would have you believe that they were all sprung from the loins of the old Hero of New Orleans: unfortunately for them he had no sons these are bastards ? (Cheers.) I came into this upper country (continued the speaker) as thorough and uncompromising a nion, man as ever wore russet shoes or brogans. No man ever heard me raise my voice in opposition to any action of the administration or its course of policy until after that administration removed General McClellan "from his position, (Cheers.) It was because I was fully impressed with the belief that General McClellan, ahough not a giant in stature, yet towering so far above the mushroon growth in Washington city the rest of the sentence was lost in the tumult of applause that followed this utterance. I say it was because I found him to be an intel lectual giant, with a mbre comprehensive knowledge than the other men I met with possessed, that I was favorably impressed in opinion with regard to him. Af ter that letter which set forth his policy was written ho was removed. My friends he was removed because ha would not be a subtle tool and sacrifice his own honest convictions to the behests of a set of politicians at Washington city". (Applause.) Finding that he would not sacrifice his manhood and cringing bow before them and whine approvingly to their schemes of fanaticism and madness they applied the official axe to his head. He could say with truth that their policy towards him was : "Ypu will and you won't. You can And joa can't You shall and you shan't." - George B. McClellan, you'll be dd if you do, and you'll be dd ifyou don't (Great Laughter.) Those men actually fancied and be ueved that they had damned him to everlasting infamy; that there were none so poor to do him reverence; but when I came into this hall to-night, in this great metropolis of the nation, where there is wealth, property, and influence, talent and intelligence, I found that George B. McClellan had thousands of friends where his traducers had none. (Loud Cheers.) He has been abused, denoun ced and traduced as few men in the his- torv of our countrv have been : tradneed and villified. (Voice -"Except Washington and Jackson.") Yes like Wash ington; but like him I believe Providence has marked him out to be the saviour of his country. -. (Voices--'Yes,: yes, tGood,M "The second George." and applause,) Yes, he is the second , George. (Renewed applause. V Not George uie Second, but George B. which stands for George the better in our hard and critical emergency. . Uut they traduce and denounce him. Is. it possible that he can survive ? Those persons out West who are bitter against hiniwonder if he dared show himseu. in'Kew. York " Laughter.! ,!They actually thought lie v would not dare to show- himself. tut --West;-- 3ut every xiow and then some men from the army. came. back-r--the men who manned jundef the banner of. which he was the v leaddr They r walked -v-the streets minus a txm oT a leg lost in the service-bf the jcountry.'and - shouted ? for 'Oittle Uact? ?A TTleft oh the train of, cars to coxneorNew York Ibidrigood by to a soldier who had - lost his arm - sm OHIO : SATTJUDAT, APHIL 9,; ; 1864. the battle field and when I'toldrjbimitl f was going to attend a IXcCteUan meet ing I asked him how Jie liked it, and he said, "I am for ; little Maor-put him through" , fLaughter - and eheers. But my countrymen, George B. McClell- an can bear traducing. He tcan lire under the abuse that he receivesunder the gibes and jeers of an enemy,--even-though that enemy should be the great joker himself Tcheers and laughter. Portentous indeed will be the day, if it should ever arrive, when it will be said that the owl towering high in pride of place shall bring the eagle down. No mousing owl can by any - effort , he - may make fly to the same height that our ' eagle will go, for "Little Mac" has the eagles upon his shoulders, and still higher he will .soar, Great applause. This was a fruitful theme, and he .Warlike the old man in the revival who said he would not give a cuss for a man who had'nt his heart in a cause. My whole heart, continued Mr. Norton, is in the cause of George B. McClellan, because I believe it to be the cause of civil and constitutional liberty. .; H'Good,' ' andn appiause. j tie neeu nis triumpnant election, and all of you should come up and join, hands and march shoulder to shoulder in advancing his cause. Voices "we wilLV) Some of you may be peace democrats; some of you may be of that class sty ledfwar democrats; some of you may be conservatives and many of you doubtless are republicans all having at heart the welfare of our common country. Then, in this day and hour of our national peril, in God's name come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty; come up in defense of popular rights; come up in defense of constitutional liberty; come up for the rescue of your bleeding country from - those 'who have stricken such deadly blows at its life. A voice -and we want our soldiers to come too.' Yes, we do," to march right along with ns. They have served their country and done it good service, and are entitled to the thanks of every man and woman in the land. Those soldiers one and - all, who have done such hard service with the Army of the Potomac, and who have with their great leader been traduced and vil. lified know how false .'aft these charges and accusations have bn against their, old C6mmander-iiv.ChejP(Thais so,') ana loud cheers; Ana to-day if it werS in their power, they wouldjarray themselves once again under Ids" banner.- "That is so" by spldiersJ - .Why countrymen, nothing under heaven has been accomplished since General McClellan was removed, in taking Richmond, any more' than he himself had done. Your own experience and observation since he was removed from the position of commander of the army of the Potomac has satisfied you that he was right, and those men who removed him were wrong. "That's so," and applause. Now, my friends, I have come to speak to you a few words in reference to the condition of the South, and the states in the South; The doctrine which I hold, and which I believe every man in this room, who is sane,, will hol(l,i that the states which have been, by the rebellion of citizens of those states, carried as it were, out of the rightful control of the laws of those states and the Con stitution of the federal Union, that they cannot be destroyed. I will give you an illustration of the matter- I belong to Texas; and I know that theconven--tion that passed the ordinance of secession was called by an irresponsible little clique of sixty-one men, hangers-about of drinking safoons and restaurants, and it was issued by and in pursuance of the action of that clique An election was held; one hundred and eighty delegates came together at the state capital, without any right whatever, and passed an ordinance of secession. It was in the most dark and perilous time: that that glorious bid chief, Sam. Houston, the old war-worn hero jof San Jacinto (cheers) . v A voice "Is he living yet?" He is not living iny friend, I am sorry to say. The last inter riew I had l with him he trusted in God for my spee dy getting out of the country, and lor my speedy return with nieh who would re'ieve them from the thraldom and tyranny that was over them. -In the darkest hour j he, the rightful Governor, was deposed,- because "of his - fidelity to the Constitutional Union and Ed. Clark, the miserable tool, was proclaimed exe cutive m his place. Sirs, our state was never rightfully carried out of the Union. This convention that'-assed- the . oi di-nance"oft cession contained seven mem bers who had the nervojwid jhanhood to vote against the passaged of - that ordi nance, and I recollect th& jeers and jibes and hisses that ensued as each vote was caUed, and hois; the noble James Throck morton sprang to his feet and said ?'The rabble mar hiss when patriots tremble. (Applause.)., rhat was the; class of men that were true jtoi the Constitution and the Union in our state." -In our..' Legis lature we hnd thirteen tncmbers who rot ted against the ordinanco cf . secession and Tan tyoudsr 4Hn cf any event in my life, that it was zny lot to be cine of ththirteeawhgrToted against thei ac turn -of that convention. Apt)lanse. The convention su!nnitted the ordinance of'.secessioji-lh j and they adjourned - ' to -heir homes, some one. hundred, and eighty delegates and . all the;' clerks, sergeants-at-arms, and other oflicers connected with it, and they went out with only ; seven men to battle against them. We had only thirteen men in the Legislature, and yet we kept the faith and fought the good fight. The Constitution required that tney should give sixty days notice of their election, and yet upon'this most important event in the" history of our state government they had only fifteen days w weruse meir uiscretion m regard to their votes. Then they - came up to vote under that most infamous of all terrors, the reign of terror instituted by a vigilance committee, and yet seventeen thousand of those loyal men had the nerve and vigor faithful to the Constitution and. the Union to vote an open ticket against secession in that state. (Applause.) The state was declared carried out by the convention. It was in point of fact the eighth state in the union to secede. They carried the vote for this reason mainly.- that Major-General Twiggs before that election, in violation of his express promise to General Houston, surrendered up the arms and the munitions of war to the agents of the order of the Golden Circle, who took command "and sway. And shall it be sad that the loyal men of any state who were carried out of the Union by such means through the instrumentality and connivance, the fraud and treachery of officers sworn to the government, shall it be said . that now the federal administration shall be seeking to disfranchise our people, confiscating their goods and chattels, emancipating their slaves, and depriving them of all their possessions? 7 ("No, no.") No, my friends, I know you consider it wrong; it'is infamously wrong, and let me say one thing further, after all" the sacrifices that our people have made, after they have remained true, and many of the Union men have been driven from their homes, many of them hunted down, many of them found theirhiding-places in the caverns of Colorado, and many have left their bones to bleach upon the barren sands shall it be said of those men who fell so nobly in behalf of the true i principles of government, that they died in vain? ("No, never.") Shall it'.be said that their rights and the rights of their families are to be trampled upon by the agents of the federal government! ;fNo,rjxo." My blood fairly boils within me when I refer to the present condition of public affairs; wheft I see the proposition sub-; mittedin the Senate of the United States by ' the radical senator, I would call him, if it were not for dealing in personalities, to which I object, a crack brained, fanatical senator "Sumner?" No, sir: it is the Kansas border-ruffian, Lane; and, by the way, I think, as he did not get re-elected, that he probably realizes the truth of that old proverb, "It is a long lane that has no ending." Laughter. I have never seen him, but I take it for 'granted he is a long lank, candaverous and a white-livered Lane, or he would not be in favor of disfranchising the people of Texas and gi ving all their property, their slaves, all the territory west of the Colorado river up to freed negroes! Are you, the people of the free .North and otherwise ? citizens of New-York, going to stand by and see these efforts to wrcsti from the true Union men of Texas all their property and effects? P'No." "No," "never." vV - . . '; . My friends, my doctrine is this and I believe it is the wholesome and correct Democratic doctrine, - that those men who were in the states, true to the federal government, true to their state con- stituti on, lose none of their rights what ever by the action of those, who in rebellion, take hold of the government. (Cheers.) It is the true doctrine, the correct view of the question ; and if you do not take this view, then you run into the radical's position, who declare that the states are not in existence as states," but are in a territorial condition. Think you that that policy- is more likely to win the Union men South - to come up and embrace the old Constitution and swear allegiance to it ? Think you that ihey will, renew their vows ana pledge again their faith sooner than they would to stand by the government upon the policy of George B. McClellan's Harrison's Bar-letter, read to you. No, sir. Such a course as this in Texas and otb er states never can make Union men. Those men in my state have their histo ric traditions. They have the gl6ry of the past encircling them, and they are never going to prove unworthy sons, of their fathers. Why, sir, the very shades of old Davy Crockett, and Evans and Bowie and Travis, and .of the gallant men who fell at Alamo and Goliad, their shades -would again return-to earth and frighten ?out every devil ', of these men from the lands for which, ihey fought under', this Jm Lane system, fLa- rplause.1 , - Then, too, I hclleve, the same course oi puuer is oeing : pursuea in Florida, and with disastrous results ; I believe it has been the settled purposQ of a certain set of men with this afZio- tion cauea niger-on-tne-orain, ' ac- eompahied;with; " tarfcon-the-IieeIs"to mabs the coppers stick!.':: I believe .tiiia s the yejyysane course, ; and I, tell you unless t-; this , policy- is, cliangedV your Union cannot in your life time-exist-as a Union. I want the Union maintaihcl; I want it with all the "rights under the Constitution and within the Union. I have ho disposition or desire to do or say anything detrimental to the cause or the Federal government, or of those who for the time being administer the government: but in mv opinion the roI- icy they adopt is unwise and impolitic ana unconstitutional, ana 1 would De a craven and a dastard if I did not denounce it. Loud cheers. Yes, it is the duty of every man to pursue this course, and if there was a little more plain talk on this subject by the people, the government would not be propelled in the manner it has been. I have not much more to say in reference to that matter I have only to say that those men who set themselves up to preach this doctrine, are the last men on God Almighty's footstool to accomplish anything for the cause of the Union -and the (Constitution. TAppiause.T And now let me still further say . that, if the course ot poney marked out by General McClellan became also the policy of the government, in all the states in revolt, wherever there were men who took ground against secession, those' men would come up strong and powerful and zealous in support of the government of your country. Applause. Imagine an army led by the gallant General George B. McClellan, or a man with that view, in Texas or Louisiana; the people weuld flock to him and they would bring the state of Texas and other states, once again into the Union. And here let me say one word in reference to the constant abuse and denunciation of the South by a class of men who are canvassing the country. There was an old asage I learned when a boy, that it was "a dirty bird that be fouled its own nest." jXaughtcr. .' These men who slander the people where they lived must do it it from sinister motives. X appeal to history, and to the fair fame of the men of a state which has been so much abused by a certain class of newspaper writers and political demagogues. The Constitution of my State contains the most liberal provisions and provides for Common Schools that shall be free to the children of all citizens.. The appropriations of land and money for educational purposes are "greater than; in any State in the Union; and notwithstanding te" fact rthat we had a greater amount of mohey as common school fund than all NewJn-gland, the sanctimonious and puritanical fanatics are constantly" assailing us. I affirm that in "general intelligence, purity of morals, social refinement, and all the elements that go to make up the perfect State, with an industrious population, steadily increasing in wealth and agricultural and commercial prosperity, lexas never has had in the same length of time from its State existence a supe rior, nor even an equal. You have been told that the people of the South were illiterate, ignorant ; that that they were sand diggers, dirt-caters and snuff-dippers, and that there was no manner of gentility or refinement among them. As one of the citizens of that country; as one who has suffered, faithful to the government, and has sacrificed for the honor of the government, I take it upon myself to pronounce any and every man who makes such statements in reference to the people "among whom I have lived; in reference to the generous and hospitable southern people a liar, slanderer and a coward Cheers, j My countrymen you may just as well understand each other as not. You are' warring against whom ? You are not, my friends, in the army, brave soldier boys, you are not warring against, the miserable "greasers" of Mexico, not that class of men of whom you can whip out seven withne of you, and they have an experience of your calm bravery, that taught them you are foemen worthy of their steel, and they generally got the worst of Hy for while they are most' rm- petuous, jtne northerner, -tne coia in clime are cold in blood,'' meets the charge and as a general thing vanquishes his adversary. V: ; . -.- There have been during this war many engagements, rivaling Spartan bravery and Roman prowess. 5 Why should there not have been? - Yon are of the same flesh and blood, descendants of heroes who fought shoulder to shoulder in freedom's holy cause. You areas good as theyi and they no better than you. There has been enough of gas," enough of wind, enough of flourishing of official trumpets to the disparagement of your adversary! - Knough of false prophesy. enough of soothsayers enough of spirit ual medium prophecying I " Thethip ty days have passed,"- "the ninety," and yetotwitnstanding aii predic tions, the war gees on with its wonted furv. Lincoln. Seward. Chase. Greelev and Miss Dickinson, have prophecied - and all falsely. . - - -, S.The reason of these repeated failures is that they started on wrong premises. xney snux ineir eves to tne stuDooro facts, they have determined noi to heed the truthi They muzzled the press, ini prisoned or banished speakers andwri- ters,: who told the truth. Ana ne, wo even hinted at the truth, - or intimated anything contrary to -the popular Wish, was worse than m heretic a f copper dMfirTinf death ti tyU. -s V-tl The time: has come for the'scaies of NUMBER 52. : prejudice to bo dropped from the eyes, ' and things to be looked at in their real aspect. : -' ' ";- " " ; While the policy has served to distract the North, and: has united the South, it has nerved . with desperation men before irresolute and undecided. The most absurd of all theories has been that of subjugating the South by starvation. The authorties, in adopting it, manifested gross 'ignorance of the geography and of the resources and abilities of the Southern States. -- They forgot that God had favored them with a cli mate and a soil -producing , in greater abundance than the frozen regions of the North ; " and that the people were able, when applying themselves to produce subsistence and to make all they wear and a surplus besides. - While the men have shown powers of endurance unexpected, the women have evinced a seal and devotion to their cause, misguided though it be, which "has never been surpassed. Newspaper writers, contributors and camp followers, of the irrepressible" stamp, have ; misrepresented the actual condition of affairs, causing the indulgence of false and delusive hopes, which time dispels. ' Take official reports of recent expeditions into Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi, where mil-, lions of dollars worth of provisions and supplies were seized and destroyed. In the great raid of Gen. Sherman, for instance, see what vast captureseither he misrepresents, which I know he would not do, or those who have written down that people as being stricken, by gaunt famine, have wilfully and dcliDeratelr lied, t" That's so,' from several so Jlr. Norton closed with an elocuJt appeal for th Union men of th South, in defense them against the wholesale eppreaiion that the J ministration is heapiug alike upoo the traitors and haysi men without discrimination. He declared that if General JXoCIellatt be the r candidate of the people and I take it for grant . ed that he is to be voice "Be le th man") and in ooneeetion with him 70a have , euob a man as Oovernor Campbell of Tennessee, Cheers, or some other gentleman- like him, some true man, representing oonse rva tire sentiments, you will be successful with your ticket, and no mistake. Then ictoT7'i will perch upoa your banner. - And now, la order to know exact! where you stand, X put the question AU in fkvor of George B. Ho Clellao as onr next President, - in oppositioa to tEe world toe flesh and the devil combined Mj eo. Immense cheerieg.1 almost' ihm: entire audience rising to their feet and jgrving cheer after cheer for ilcCIellan, amid .which the band sent forth the inspiring-music of the-"Star Spagled Banner" and hundreds of little flaglets, containing the motto, "Bnrrah for McClellan," were raised bj patriotic hands in various parts of the halL The en th astasia was nnboanded, and evidenced fully that Gen.. McClellan is in the hearts of the people,- asd that they are determiced to stand by and sup-port him with all their might and ability. A Question of Fthnology.-Some people hare an idea that HannibeJ the Carthaeenian general, was a negro, be-" cause he was born on the Southern shore of Africa. The National JiUelKgenetr settles this ethnological question m the following way : Carthage was founded by the Phoenicians, and, nnless people change their color and extraction by the mere fact of changing their ky we most suppose that a Phcenician born in Carthage would not differ much front a Phoenician born in Tyre. . And, as we have never heard it asserted that the Tyrians were negroes, we know of no possible groand on . which it can be supposed tbst their deeoend-ams became negroes in Carthage, merely be- ' cause they lived in a country where negroes are the aborigines. We suppose that even Mr. W hiring would not contend that General Butler, the present renowned military commander of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, is a Peouot or Najragnoeett Indian, simply because hie English ancestors may haveoriginallr settled among one oT the Indian tribes inhabiting New England. . Don't Forget It I Early in 1850 John P. Hals, ofNew- Tlamp.' shire, presented two petitions in the United States Senate, praying That some plan might be devised for the dissolution of the American Union I" - Mr. Webster, of Massachusetts suggested as a preamble to these resolutions, "That as the) members had sworn before God to support the Constitution, they should now take itsroedisto : stepe to break their obligatione. v- . Upon a vote being taken, the petitions were rejected bv the votes of the entire Senate, wiUv the exceptions of John. P. Hale, of New Hampshire, Wm. H. Seward, of New York, and Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, who voted fa favor!! . . . ' . mmmmmmMmmmWmmmmmmmmgmmmmi'MmmWmmmmmmmmmmp ."siW" ' How It 7orks. We clip the fqllowing from the Newark, Ohio, Advocatt of Friday-' " r -'. Within the last two weeks fifty thoosand dollars have been withdraws from thr tax duplicate of Licking ooanty by ten or a doxsa of onr citizens who have started one of Chase's banks at Granvills. Is order to escape State, county, town and township taxation o your property, all yoa have to do is to invest vpar means in XJovemmen t : bonds. .That's what.-theee-bankers have done. They are paid fa . terestin gold (eaual to ten percesU,) and yet are mads a prwltql das free from taxes I Voters, how do yon like UT ' , ." f r .;; Asdrexr Johnxca..-- ' ; A correspondent of t he Loniav ills J aehmZ. writing from Londen, Tenaessen, ttye-of A&. drew Johnsoc, Lincoln lliiiixry Covernbr of that T''y7J-:r;-:;. - People here" who haJ at Crtt 4 riacV eon--fiiencn in thelovxlty f Andrew Cohsso, rami in the purity of his actives, caw rr ?i !.'ta-as a UBtahn. Theyaay that be has the rple, sX now wacu to drsit tLm'tuv: the dirty pool with him. TXey matttgx: I -i " : - y